A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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